Postoperative multisegmental lumbar discitis treated by staged ventrodorsoventral intervention

Surgical Infections

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 529-534

  Robinson, Yohan ^a   Reinke, Marcus ^a   Kayser, Ralph ^a   Ertel, Wolfgang ^a   Heyde, Christoph E ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOTIAM; CIPROFLOXACIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; RIFAMPICIN; TITANIUM; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; DISKITIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMUR HEAD NECROSIS; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; LUMBAR DISKITIS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

EID: 36148988804     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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